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At the district registrar's office, Paddington, on 29 August 1942 Nicholls had married
Roberta Clarice Vickery, a 25-year-old commercial artist. After being involved in having the Sydney Press Club stripped of its licence, Nicholls was a founder (1939), president (1942â44) and vice-president (1947â49
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comedy figure, complete with straw boater, Fatty Finn evolved . . . into a knockabout schoolboy innocently living out his days in a never-never urban world'. On August 1924 the title of the strip was changed to
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was produced by Tal Ordell, featuring Fatty Finn and his goat, Hector. The film also contained a segment showing
Nicolls at his drawing board, creating his famous characters. Three coloured
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Ashley, Frank; Pitt, Reginald; Pitt, S. J. (Stanley John) (1949).
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